Mobile coffee cart plans to open family-friendly storefront in Warner Robins

The owners of a popular, family-owned mobile coffee cart serving Middle Georgia expect to open a storefront in Warner Robins this spring.

“We want the loud, open to moms, family friendly, bring the children, coffee shop,” said co-owner Colleen Kemper, who started Coffee on the Moooove with her daughters, Ashley Lindstrom and Elizabeth Buxton last fall. “We’re all about play.”

Coffee on the Moooove is going into the current location of Tasty Prayer the Cookie Bar at 1806 Russell Parkway, Suite 100.

The dessert shop is closing its doors Saturday, but is expected to remain in business in some form such as a smaller production kitchen or through its food truck, said co-owner Lisa Tutherow.

“We don’t have anything specific, but, yeah, we’re trying to figure out what baking looks like, you know, after we close this,” Tutherow said.

In the meantime, she and co-owner Sundee Tutherow, her sister, expect to take a one to two month break.

Coffee on the Moooove has roots in inflatables

Coffee on the Moooove got its start in the family’s inflatable business, Elko Entertainment, that offers bounce houses, water slides, obstacle courses and such.

With increased competition of more than 45 bounce house businesses now in Middle Georgia, the women decided to create their own inflatable mobile coffee cart — asking an inflatable manufacturer to modify a tiki bar inflatable into a coffee shop inflatable.

The women launched Coffee on the Moooove in October, transporting their mobile coffee bar strapped inside a trailer.

Coffee on the Moooove specializes in handcrafted espresso drinks, herbal teas, hot chocolate, and pasture pops, also known as dirty sodas.

The business offers mobile coffee catering for weddings, corporate events, birthday parties, school functions, church gatherings and community festivals.

The women plan to keep operating the mobile business in addition to the storefront. Their inflatable business is on the back burner, with Lindstrom and her husband expecting their third child.

With the creation of all their businesses, the women wanted something that allows them to remain connected as a family and that allows Lindstrom to include her children, two-year-old Olivia and 8-year-old Greyson.

And they want to extend that feeling to the shop — Kemper plans to incorporate an area for children to learn 3-D modeling and printing on tablets.

‘City girl turned farmer’ in move from Florida

Coffee on the Moooove’s name traces back to the family’s Elko farm south of Perry in Houston County.

“We wanted to own land, and life is much cheaper here, and we explored Middle Georgia,” said Kemper, who moved the family up from Florida 10 years ago. “We fell in love with the pecan trees, the communities.

“So, we landed in Elko because it afforded us to buy 11 acres and goats and chickens and cows. ... my oldest daughter who told me I was having a mid-life crisis (with the move) shows up a month later with a two-week-old calf in her car. City girl turned farmer immediately.”

Lindstrom, the eldest daughter, was 18 when the family made the move. The women are close, with Kemper’s husband and their father, Charles Buxton, having died when the eldest was 8 and the youngest was 1.

“Our coping mechanism for that loss was to travel,” Kemper said. “We have traveled all over the United States. We have explored just about every mom and pop coffee shop there is, and my oldest daughter has found her calling as a barista.”

Coffee on the Moooove seeks input on cafe offerings

With so many coffee shops already in business, Kemper would like to engage the community for suggestions through a survey on their website asking what customers would like featured at the new coffee shop.

Additionally, she expects to park the Coffee on the Moooove trailer outside the storefront a few days next week from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. with the days to be determined. Check their business Facebook page for updates. An opening date for the cafe is yet to be determined.

Saying goodbye to the cookie bar storefront

Tasty Prayer the Cookie Bar got its name from when Lisa Tutherow was living in Tampa. She boxed up cookies with an attached prayer and mailed them to Hurricane Katrina victims in Louisiana.

Stop by and grab a tasty dessert before they close, and check their business Facebook periodically for what comes next.

This story was originally published March 17, 2026 at 5:30 AM.